{"id":8301,"date":"2013-02-03T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:08:13","slug":"stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2013\/02\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anneicon.jpg\" alt=\"A post by Anne Jefferson\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" \/><\/span>A busy week for both of us this week &#8211; Anne had a stimulating few days at the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceonline.com\">ScienceOnline<\/a> 2013 conference in North Carolina, while Chris tried to achieve something other than teaching prep. But, through all this, we still found some cool links to share with y&#8217;all. <\/p>\n<h4>Up-Goer 5<\/h4>\n<ul>\nThe Up-Goer 5 challenge continues apace, with <a href=\"http:\/\/tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com\">Ten Hundred Words of Science<\/a> reaching more than 300 submissions to date. We&#8217;re also now on Twitter as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Ten100words\">@Ten100words<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TenHundredWordsOfScience\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris wrote about the challenge at the Scientific American Guest Blog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/01\/27\/science-in-ten-hundred-words-the-up-goer-five-challenge\/\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/01\/27\/science-in-ten-hundred-words-the-up-goer-five-challenge\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/astrolisa\">Lisa Grossman<\/a> also blogged for New Scientist about the challenge:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/culturelab\/2013\/01\/up-goer-five.html\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/culturelab\/2013\/01\/up-goer-five.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>When people say science has impenetrable jargon, I wonder if they&#8217;ve recently been to an art gallery\u2026do we need a &#8216;Ten Hundred words of Art?&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2013\/jan\/27\/users-guide-international-art-english\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2013\/jan\/27\/users-guide-international-art-english<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/edyong209\">@edyong209<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstandage\">@tomstandage<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Volcanoes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice post from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eruptionsblog\">Erik Klemetti<\/a> highlighting how molten lava is much more viscous than you might think.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/sampling-lava-tolbachik-eruption\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/sampling-lava-tolbachik-eruption\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe video of Tolbachik lava flows that he&#8217;s referring to is pretty cool.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/earthvideo\/9832045\/Rare-glimpse-of-volcanic-activity-on-remote-Kamchatka-peninsula.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/earthvideo\/9832045\/Rare-glimpse-of-volcanic-activity-on-remote-Kamchatka-peninsula.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sea-floor spreading, on land: good stuff from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davidmpyle\">David Pyle<\/a> on research into rifting processed in Afar, Ethiopia<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/volcanicdegassing.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/sea-floor-spreading-on-land\/\">http:\/\/volcanicdegassing.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/sea-floor-spreading-on-land\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Time-lapse DEM shows growth of Mount St. Helens lava dome between 2004 and 2008: growth that has pushed the Crater Glacier out of the way.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u4ld6EQqY3w&#038;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u4ld6EQqY3w&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rschott\">@rschott<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Spectacular footage from White Island NZ: really shows how much more active it is than <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2012\/12\/scenic-saturday-white-island-before-the-spiny-lava-invasion\/\">when I visited 10 years ago<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Incredible, spectacular mud explosions on White Island Volcano    NZ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4bDayc1Pms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Earthquakes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Saturday marked 313 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnsn.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/the-last-cascadia-great-earthquake-and-tsunami-313-years-and-ticking\">http:\/\/www.pnsn.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/the-last-cascadia-great-earthquake-and-tsunami-313-years-and-ticking<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Planets<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A very nice summary of what we&#8217;ve learnt from Dawn&#8217;s sojourn at Vesta<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jpl.nasa.gov\/2013\/01\/the-giant-asteroid-a-retrospective\/\">http:\/\/blogs.jpl.nasa.gov\/2013\/01\/the-giant-asteroid-a-retrospective\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfAbelMendez\">@ProfAbelMendez<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Eruptive history of Olympus Mons reconstructed using only topography &amp; how crust has deformed under its weight.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0012821X12007066\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0012821X12007066<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>(Paleo)climate<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Oldest ice core recovered from Greenland suggests ice sheet there might be more stable than thought?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wildwildscience\/2013\/02\/01\/greenland-ice-core-may-rewrite-some-climate-books\/\">http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wildwildscience\/2013\/02\/01\/greenland-ice-core-may-rewrite-some-climate-books\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Water<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting article on the growth of green storm water management projects in US cities. Key quote: &#8220;nature is often very good at things we humans find hard to accomplish through classic, straight-line engineering&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/to_tackle_runoff_cities_turn_to_green_initiatives\/2613\/\">http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/to_tackle_runoff_cities_turn_to_green_initiatives\/2613\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Traditional fossil fuel plants: 10-60 gallons #water per kWhr electricity. W\/dry cooling? 0.8. Solar and wind? Zero.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacinst.org\/reports\/water_for_energy\/\">http:\/\/www.pacinst.org\/reports\/water_for_energy\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterGleick\">@PeterGleick<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Brisbane central business district  to be flooded for 2nd time in 3 years (<a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2011\/01\/a-flood-is-a-disaster-when-people-are-in-the-way\/\">as it has been flooded many times before<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/national\/brisbane-cbd-braces-for-its-second-flood-in-two-years\/story-fndo6bgc-1226563818419\">http:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/national\/brisbane-cbd-braces-for-its-second-flood-in-two-years\/story-fndo6bgc-1226563818419<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/watersecurity\">@watersecurity<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Video: Sinkhole near a construction site in China swallows several buildings:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/9833738\/Sinkhole-swallows-whole-building-complex-in-China.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/9833738\/Sinkhole-swallows-whole-building-complex-in-China.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Water main break floods part of NYC:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2013\/02\/01\/water_main_break_floods_flatiron_di.php#photo-12\">http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2013\/02\/01\/water_main_break_floods_flatiron_di.php#photo-12<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jmunshi_south\">@jmunshi_south<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Took my students to the Cuyahoga in Kent last week, site of what I think is a really good dam removal compromise:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentohio.org\/reports\/dam.asp\">http:\/\/www.kentohio.org\/reports\/dam.asp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sonic daylighting of an urban stream &#8211; fascinating idea! Broadcasting sounds of buried river<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordandalton.com\/scajaquada\/proposal.html\">http:\/\/www.jordandalton.com\/scajaquada\/proposal.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WoodinRivers\">@WoodinRivers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/losturbanrivers\">@losturbanrivers<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>CSO fix + stream restoration! : Philadelphia #daylighting the Indian Creek &#8211; a #losturbanriver<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/planphilly.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/21\/daylighting-project-reveals-a-hidden-creek\">http:\/\/planphilly.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/21\/daylighting-project-reveals-a-hidden-creek<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/losturbanrivers\">@losturbanrivers<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Interesting sounding new paper in Nature Climate Change: Major flood disturbance alters river ecosystem evolution (paywall)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v3\/n2\/full\/nclimate1665.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201302#\/affil-auth\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v3\/n2\/full\/nclimate1665.html?WT.ec_id=NCLIMATE-201302#\/affil-auth<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Environmental<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Maggie Romuld (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rivrchik\">@rivrchik<\/a>) wrote about what she saw when I sent her a picture through my office window: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggieromuld.ca\/2013\/02\/01\/through-highlyannes-window\/\">http:\/\/www.maggieromuld.ca\/2013\/02\/01\/through-highlyannes-window\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Stern: &#8216;I got it wrong on climate change: it&#8217;s far, far worse&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/jan\/27\/nicholas-stern-climate-change-davos\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/jan\/27\/nicholas-stern-climate-change-davos<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>What will departing US Energy Secretary Steven Chu&#8217;s Legacy Be? As with most pieces asking such questions, answer is &#8216;come back in 20 years&#8217;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2013\/02\/01\/what-will-steven-chus-energy-legacy-be\/\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2013\/02\/01\/what-will-steven-chus-energy-legacy-be\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>US energy report suggests natural gas and renewables industries in &#8216;unholy alliance&#8217; to see off coal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/climatedesk.org\/2013\/01\/charts-renewables-in-bed-with-natural-gas\/\">http:\/\/climatedesk.org\/2013\/01\/charts-renewables-in-bed-with-natural-gas\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>General Geology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Hall concedes that calling Euler a geophysicist is a bit rich, but argues we couldn&#8217;t do geophysics without him. He also derived Euler poles, which describe the motion of rigid plates on a sphere &#8211; so we couldn&#8217;t do plate tectonics without him, either.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilegeoscience.com\/journal\/2013\/1\/29\/great-geophysicists-7-leonhard-euler.html\">http:\/\/www.agilegeoscience.com\/journal\/2013\/1\/29\/great-geophysicists-7-leonhard-euler.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kwinkunks\">@kwinkunks<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Nice post by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/geotripper\">Garry Hayes<\/a> on aerial interpretation of geology from drainage patterns.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/the-airliner-chronicles-wrinkles-tell.html\">http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/the-airliner-chronicles-wrinkles-tell.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mantle xenoliths contain primary magnetite that may be able to carry stable remanence at upper mantle temps\/pressures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2012GL054100\/abstract\">http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2012GL054100\/abstract<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Interesting Miscellaney<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BoraZ\">@BoraZ<\/a> unveils his latest blogging opus, this time on blog comments. We don&#8217;t generate vast comment threads here at Highly Allochthonous, but the ones we get are excellent, and we value every one.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/a-blog-around-the-clock\/2013\/01\/28\/commenting-threads-good-bad-or-not-at-all\/\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/a-blog-around-the-clock\/2013\/01\/28\/commenting-threads-good-bad-or-not-at-all\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>A good post on the trickier aspects science outreach, although like &#8216;impact&#8217;, seems &#8216;outreach&#8217; has as many definitions as there are people in the discussion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sciencepunk\/2013\/01\/26\/1195\/\">http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sciencepunk\/2013\/01\/26\/1195\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Boo! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MiriamGoldste\">Miriam Goldstein<\/a> going on blogging hiatus! But yay! It&#8217;s because she&#8217;s going to be kicking ass and taking names in DC!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2013\/01\/to-take-arms-against-a-sea-of-troubles-my-life-in-blogging-and-farewell\/\">http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2013\/01\/to-take-arms-against-a-sea-of-troubles-my-life-in-blogging-and-farewell\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Past attempt to coin another grandiose-sounding buzzword, some interesting points : Why we need &#8216;Long Data&#8217;, not just &#8216;Big Data&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2013\/01\/forget-big-data-think-long-data\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2013\/01\/forget-big-data-think-long-data\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroGeosciences\">@EuroGeosciences<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Emphasis is on the &#8216;could&#8217;, but always fun to dream big technological dreams: 7 Massive Ideas That Can Change the World<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/01\/ff-seven-big-ideas\/all\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/01\/ff-seven-big-ideas\/all\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hmm. &#8216;Near-living&#8217; crystals? Interesting self-organising behaviour, but save the hype for when you nail replication&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/living-crystal\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/living-crystal\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>A elegant real-time representation of the global tweeting patterns.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tweetping.net\/\">http:\/\/tweetping.net\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Worth revisiting: Where are the women geoscientists?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agiweb.org\/workforce\/Currents\/Currents-033-GenderOccupations.pdf\">http:\/\/www.agiweb.org\/workforce\/Currents\/Currents-033-GenderOccupations.pdf<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week for both of us this week &#8211; Anne had a stimulating few days at the ScienceOnline 2013 conference in North Carolina, while Chris tried to achieve something other than teaching prep. But, through all this, we still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2013\/02\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-59\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}